Sacred Stories

<p><i>Sacred Stories </i>brings together the work of leading scholars writing on the history of religion and religiosity in late imperial Russia during the critical decades preceding the 1917 revolutions. Embodying new research and new methodologies this book reshapes our understanding of the place of religion in modern Russian history. Topics examined include miraculous icons and healing pilgrim narratives confessions women and Orthodox domesticity marriage and divorce conversion and tolerance Jewish folk beliefs mysticism in Russian art and philosophical aspects of Orthodox religious thought. Sacred Stories demonstrates that belief spirituality and the sacred were powerful and complex cultural expressions central to Russian political social economic and cultural life.<br /><br />Contributors are Nicholas B. Breyfogle Heather J. Coleman Gregory L. Freeze Nadieszda Kizenko Alexei A. Kurbanovsky Roy R. Robson Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal Gabriella Safran Vera Shevzov Sarah Abrevaya Stein Mark Steinberg Paul Valliere William G. Wagner Paul W. Werth and Christine D. Worobec.</p>